Sebastian Seung, a computational neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working on a program that will automate this process, too.

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"That is a million times more connections than the genome has letters of DNA, " said computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is developing ways to automate the mapping of individual synapses.

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